Headlines from April 12, 2007

In what is considered to be the most severe security breach of the Green Zone yet, a blast inside the Iraqi Parliament kills at least one
BBC leads international day of action to free its kidnapped reporter who is reported "safe and well" in Palestine.
Turkey hopes now is the time to get the U.S. pumped for an invasion of Kurdistan.
U.S. Army extends all troop deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq to 15 months, partly to make sure troops have enough time at home.
Thousands of emails related to current Dept. of Justice investigation go missing; White House blames computer networks meant to keep government and politics separate.
Head of World Bank apologizes for his role in getting his partner the pay raise of a lifetime.
Owner of Dickens World theme park insists he is not "Disneyfying Dickens."
Checking in with "start-over dads" as their kids hit college and they hit 80.
Let the U.S. News & World Report College Rankings revolt begin!
Is the Macedonian Minister of the Interior driving David Beckham's car?
Claims of widespread "Delhi Belly" lead to ban on city's street food.
Ryanair promises a $12 transatlantic flight within four years.
Partygoers allegedly urinated on the mother's wedding dress and children's clothes; ripped light fittings from the ceiling by swinging on them; vomited throughout the house and barricaded the back door to prevent neighbours from intervening. Don't advertise your party on MySpace.
Air traffic controller's union and FAA spar, this time over a 12-minute bathroom break.
The first Chi-Tonw [sic] tattoo was a mistake. And the rest were pure Chicago love.
Yesterday's bomb attacks in Algeria linked to Al Qaeda's escalating violence in North Africa.
Math on the likelihood of a nuclear attack in the U.S.
Global economics as model trains: The world will decouple if U.S. has a soft landing; it will not decouple if there is a U.S. hard landing.
Europol's first "EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report"; bomb explodes inside the Iraqi parliament's cafeteria.
Whether we are safer with jihadists converging on Baghdad or jihadists converging on camps in Afghanistan and planning events like 9/11, there's no doubt. Interview with invasion defender Richard Perle.
Rapex device to be available in South Africa this month: vaginal teeth that don't do permanent damage to an attacker.
Old established white men chuckle when discussing Don Imus's hos; Oprah unlikely to chuckle.
Kurt Vonnegut dies, age 84.
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. Vonnegut's rules for writing fiction. See also, Vonnegut and Heller.
Author and now TV star John Hodgman explains what it's like to be mistaken for a computer in public.
Op: Dropping the charges, says Newsweek, gives Duke's accused their reputations back.
Related: Forget about firing David Sedaris from the New Yorker--but is Rodney Rothman owed an apology?
Crazy English, Total Physical Response, and other new systems for teaching English. See also, notes for meeting Stephen Hawking.
What your car says about you, or, does driving a Miata make you gay?
Good vs. evil, the foosball table.
Interactive high-speed sailing; the flipping ship.
Video: Scenes from a marriage within a ship, starring Bjork.